On a possibly related note, I wonder what's stopping them from going all-in on the tracker system and using a "Feature Tracker" for feature requests, much like how the Bug Tracker works for bug reports. I suppose in the end, it wouldn't really offer much advantage over the BYOND Features forum, but if the tracker system already exists in the back-end and is generic enough to adapt to varying uses, it may well be a better way of approaching feature requests.

Some advantages do come to mind, the most relevant likely relating to this thread: you could very easily see the status of a request from the front page of the requests tracker.